Necessary but not sufficient? Youth responses to localised returns to education in Australia

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2013

Authors

Biddle, Nicholas

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Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group

Abstract

In this paper, the 2001 Australian Census is used to estimate predicted net benefits of education at a small geographic level. These are then linked to youth in the areas to test the associations with high school participation. This is done separately for Indigenous youth, a population sub-group with historically low levels of education participation. The results confirm that, in general, localised predicted benefits of education do have a significant association with participation. For the Indigenous population, however, there is no significant association between the predicted income benefits of education and participation and only a weak association with the employment benefits.

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Keywords: indigenous population; participatory approach; returns to education; secondary education; young population; Australia 2001 Census; Australia; Indigenous Australians; returns to education

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Education Economics

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Journal article

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2037-12-31